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Old January 9th, 2002, 02:12 AM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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How else can I raise my 3Dmark2000 score?

Ok, I ran 3dMark2000, and published my results... When I compared them with someone elses (with the same exact settings, but I have 256 more ram), my scores were higher in all of the classes, except fot the High Polygon Count tests (where I was EXTREMELY lower)... What would cause this? Theres one thing im a little confused on, and thats the Graphics Chipset: Generic VGA (and just in case you were wondering, I have the newest drivers from ATI). Just tell me what ya think, and if theres any questions, post em here and Ill answer them...



CPU Intel Pentium 4 1494 Mhz
3D Accelerator RADEON 7200/RADEON VE
Graphics Chipset Generic VGA
Resolution 1024x768 16bit
Z-Buffer Depth 16bit
Frame Buffer Triple
CPU Optimization Intel(R) Pentium(R) III

3DMark Result 3533 3D marks
CPU Speed 228 CPU 3D marks

Game 1 - Helicopter - Low Detail 64.8 FPS
Game 1 - Helicopter - Medium Detail 48.2 FPS
Game 1 - Helicopter - High Detail 21.2 FPS
Game 2 - Adventure - Low Detail 82.6 FPS
Game 2 - Adventure - Medium Detail 48.1 FPS
Game 2 - Adventure - High Detail 29.5 FPS

Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 228.9 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 485.8 MTexels/s

High Polygon Count (1 Light) 981.4 KTriangles/s
High Polygon Count (4 Lights) 995.5 KTriangles/s
High Polygon Count (8 Lights) 1010.6 KTriangles/s

8MB Texture Rendering Speed 241.5 FPS
16MB Texture Rendering Speed 232.7 FPS
32MB Texture Rendering Speed 162.5 FPS
64MB Texture Rendering Speed 0.7 FPS

Bump Mapping (Emboss 3-pass) 320.2 FPS
Bump Mapping (Emboss 2-pass) 162.3 FPS
Bump Mapping (Emboss 1-pass) 123.6 FPS
Bump Mapping (Environment) 99.5 FPS
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Old January 9th, 2002, 02:41 AM     #2 (permalink)
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when choosing the settings for cpu optimization, you have pentium III set. do you have an option for D3D Hardware T&L? if so, this should boost that section and maybe your whole score by a whole lot. That's the only advice i can offer you...
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Old January 9th, 2002, 02:42 AM     #3 (permalink)
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what video card do you have? 3dmark claims radeon 7200/radeon VE.....which do you have?
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Old January 9th, 2002, 02:48 AM     #4 (permalink)
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Believe it or not, I got much higher scores with the PIII setting over the Hardware T/L setting... Cant explain why, but I did (by about 250 points)

Yes, I have the Radeon 7200....
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Old January 9th, 2002, 02:55 AM     #5 (permalink)
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Not knowing what mobo you have, the BIOS should be set for highest, yet stable performance. Including the memory timings, AGP - video settings, and CPU settings. If it's possible, try overclocking the video card. There may be a utility available to do so. Another thing to do is defrag the HDD before running the test and make sure there are no unnecessary programs running in the background.
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Old January 9th, 2002, 02:56 AM     #6 (permalink)
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probably because your p4 is more powerful then a radeon 7200's T&L engine i guess...

something else that's bothering me is how you got faster speeds with 8 lights in the high polygon test then you did with 1 light....should be the oposite of that.
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Old January 9th, 2002, 03:00 AM     #7 (permalink)
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Falcom- I thought that was pretty wierd too...

Rooster- Just FYI, I have a Soyo P4IS2 (i845 chipset)... Exactly how do you over clock a vid card? I was gonna start a forum of how to overclock it... (and my cpu too...)
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To overclock the Radeon, you will need this small program called Radeon Tweaker. You can also use PowerStrip. As for OC'ing the CPU, I belive all you can really do with the P4 is to increase the FSB setting in the BIOS.
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Ok, I downloaded Tweaker, but cant do anything till tomorrow (way too tired right now, dont want to screw anything up tonight)...

Anyways, I found a pretty good guide to 3DMark performance, that had some BIOS tips in it... Ill try that tomorrow too, and let ya know what the results are...
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Um, Here what my system is pulling. Is it up to standard. Its a P3 733, Geforce 2 MX 32mb, 128mbram.

Tested area Results


CPU Speed This PC: 1466 DacriMarks

Video Card 2-D This PC: 203 MP/s

Video Card 3-D This PC: 28.4 MP/s

Game Frames/sec
NFL/NHL/FIFA 98/99/2000 45 fps.
Need for Speed II/III 3-D 31 fps.
Need for Speed 4/5 Medium Detail 26 fps.
Need for Speed 4/5 Highest Detail 17 fps.
Streets of Simcity 60 fps.
Monster Truck Madness 62 fps.
Virtual Pool 2 77 fps.
Flight Simulator 98/2000 31 fps.
Driver 37 fps.
Quake II 26 fps.
The Sims 23 fps.
Midtown Madness 20 fps.
Midtown Madness 2 16 fps.

2D Performance for Full-Screen Colour Fill
Resolution Frames/sec
320x200 3178.3
320x240 2648.6
400x300 1695.1
512x384 1034.6
640x480 662.1
800x600 423.8
1024x768 258.6
1280x1024 155.2
1600x1200 105.9
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